2025 TRAVEL SOUTHERN OREGON COAST
NETWORK CONFERENCE
February 24-25, 2025
The Mill Casino Hotel & RV Park, North Bend, Oregon
The TSOC Network Idea Exchange will bring regional tourism partners together to learn, build relationships, and find solutions to the challenges we face as an industry.
Travel Southern Oregon Coast is thrilled to have you join us for our highly-anticipated, Third Annual Network Conference in North Bend at the stunning Mill Casino, February 24-25, 2025.
Stay tuned for more info on our full agenda coming soon!
We look forward to seeing the tourism-related businesses, organizations, front-line staff, and leaders from the Southern Oregon Coast Region. We’ll be hosting an exciting opening network reception on Monday evening, February 24, followed by a full day of valuable insights, networking opportunities, and collaborative sessions on Tuesday, February 25.
Last year sold out, get your tickets early!
Register Today!
Sign up for the 2025 Travel Southern Oregon Coast Network Conference before we sell out.
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It’s not too early to secure your lodging!
Host Hotel
The Mill Casino Hotel & RV Park
(800) 953-4800
Special Rate $165/night (if booked by February 9, 2025)
Room Block Name – TSOC Network Conference
Book online by going to the link below, choose “Book Today”, choose “Group Sign In” and use code 10093
2025 Itinerary
Monday, February 24th
PRE FAB FAM – Complimentary Familiarization Tour for the first 40 Attendees!!! Sponsored by Travel Southern Oregon Coast Charleston Tour
11:00 am Board bus at Mill Casino
11:30 am Lunch at Monkey Business
12:30 pm Commercial Fishing Industry History
1:00 pm Tour Charleston Marine Life Center Tour
2:15 pm Cranberry Sweets
3:15 pm Board bus back to Mill Casino
Opening Reception Shuttle & Registration
Shuttle to Networking Event and Registration
PICK-UP LOCATION – The Mill Casino – Hotel Lobby
First Shuttle – 5:45pm
Final Delivery Shuttle – 6:45pm
First Return Shuttle – 8:45pm
Final Shuttle – 9:45pm
Opening Reception & Registration
6:00 pm – 9:00 pm Conference Opening Ceremony
Gather together for a casual evening of socializing and peer-to-peer networking. Great food and beverages with Glow in the Dark Bowling!
Sponsored by Three Rivers Casino, Ziply Fiber, and Crook Point
Location – North Bend Lanes – Back Alley Pub & Grill – 1225 Virginia Avenue, North Bend
Tuesday, February 25th
8:00 am – 9:00 am – Registration -The Mill Casino – Salmon Room Foyer
8:00 am – 9:00 am – Breakfast & Networking – Sponsored by Oregon’s Adventure Coast
9:15 am – Welcome
Julie Miller, TSOC Executive Director, will welcome attendees, announce sponsors, and will welcome everyone and go over housekeeping for the event.
9:15 am – 10:45 am – Jon Schallert – Keynote Speaker
“The New Rules of Destination Business Success”
Attendees will learn that regardless of their business type (retail, restaurant, service, or professional practice), every business that wants to attract more consumer traffic and sales must start implementing these Destination principles in order to compete with today’s competitors, including online e-commerce companies. Attendees will benefit from hearing actual examples of successful Destination Businesses that Jon has studied over the last thirty years.
10:45 am – 11:00 am – Break – Network – Stretch your legs and prepare to work your mind!
11:00 am -11:30 am – Speed Networking Event – BUSINESS CARD MANDATORY!
Speed networking events allow participants to make multiple professional connections quickly. Participants can expand their network, learn about new industries, find jobs or business opportunities, and gain insights from other professionals by engaging in a series of brief, focused conversations with various individuals.
11:30 am – 11:45 am – Travel Southern Oregon Coast – Julie Miller, Executive Director
Travel Southern Oregon Coast updates, what TSOC is doing in the Region, and how you can leverage TSOC.
11:45 am – 12:30 pm – Southern Oregon Coast Tribes – History, Culture, and Relationship Building
Panelists
Jared Schmidt, Coquille Indian Tribe
Jesse Beers, Confederated Tribes of the Coos, Lower Umpqua, and Siuslaw Indians of Oregon
Emily Reed, Tolowa Dee-Ni’ Nation Tribe Crescent City
12:30 pm – 1:30 pm – Lunch – Sponsored by Travel Curry Coast
1:30 pm – 1:45 pm – OCVA Update -Stacey Reynolds – Oregon Coast Visitors Association
Learn about the latest and greatest from the Oregon Coast Visitors Association and find ways for your area to get more involved.
1:45 pm -2:30 am – TLT 101 – The Ins and Outs of Transient Lodging Tax
A panel of TLT professionals will break down the history of TLT, what it is, and how it works in the State, Coos, Curry & Coastal Douglas Counties, and South Coast Cities.
Panelists:
Janice Langlinais, Oregon’s Adventure Coast
Miranda Plagge, Travel Curry Coast
Marcus Hinz, OCVA
Kate Baumgartner, Travel Oregon
Deanna Schafer, Reedsport & Coastal Douglas County
2:30 pm – 3:00 pm – OSU Sea Grant – Sustainable Tourism & Sustainable Seafood Program
Engaging with OSU – Oregon Sea Grant and how to best engage with their efforts
Miles Phillips – Tourism & Business Development
Jamie Doyle – Coastal Community Development
3:00 pm – 3:15 pm – Afternoon Break – Sponsored by City of Coos Bay & Travel Curry Coast
3:15 pm – 4:45 pm – Keynote Speaker, Jon Schallert – Destination Marketing Round Two
4:45 pm – 5:00 pm – Conference Wrap up, Closing Remarks & parade to Warehouse 101
Post Networking Event – Warehouse 101
5:00 pm – 6:30 pm – Hosted Beer & Wine and Appetizers & Swag Giveaway -Your last opportunity to network with your new friends, colleagues, and stakeholders! A fun opportunity to close out the conference before heading home or staying an additional night to take in more of Oregon’s Adventure Coast.
Keynote Speaker – Jon Schallert
Jon Schallert is the only consultant and professional speaker who teaches businesses and communities how to turn themselves into Consumer Destinations. Schallert speaks to thousands annually on his proprietary 14-step “Destination Business” process, which he developed over the course of twenty-four (24) years by studying and interviewing over 10,000 independent business owners in over 500 cities and towns.
Jon’s Destination Business Strategy has been used around the world by businesses large and small to help them capture more market share, even when larger, better-capitalized competitors seemingly have the advantage. His process examines how a business elevates their unique qualities that a targeted customer finds most important. When independent business owners apply Schallert’s strategy, they naturally attract more local consumers along with customers from outside their traditional marketplace. Businesses also begin to attract more free publicity from the media, which in turn attracts more consumers than traditional advertising could ever reach.
Schallert’s consulting firm, The Schallert Group, Inc. was started after spending ten years with greeting card giant Hallmark Cards, where his unique marketing strategies were publicized throughout the company as “The Schallert Method”. Hallmark used his expertise on a nationwide multi-million dollar new product rollout, and tapped Schallert’s expertise for their national reinvention of their card shop channel into “Destination” stores.
After leaving Hallmark, Schallert began speaking around the country in cities, towns, downtowns, and at association conventions. After years of annually conducting over 1,000 on-site consultations with business owners, and studying the most successful business owners in North America, Schallert developed and trademarked his proprietary 14-step Destination Business process that he exclusively teaches today.
When Jon is not speaking around the country, he conducts his 2-1/2 day Destination Business BootCamp® and oversees his company’s online training network, Destination University®, and his recently developed Destination Creation Course, taught by a team of certified facilitators in 23 states in the USA and 2 provinces in Canada.
Some of Schallert’s corporate consulting clients include Kellogg’s, KitchenAid, Bank of America, Denver International Airport, Jiffy Lube, Ace Hardware, Anheuser Busch, and Hunter Douglas, to name a few. His insights are frequently seen in national publications such as The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, and Entrepreneur Magazine. He is the only consultant in the world to receive the “Top Motivator” Marketing Aware from Potentials Magazine. He is a member of the National Speakers Association and the National Main Street Network.
WE HAD A LOT OF FUN AT THE 2024 CONFERENCE. THANK YOU FOR JOINING US!
SPONSORS
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